The IPU encourages and supports parliaments in their work to approve and implement existing treaties and conventions designed to limit the threat from chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. In 2025, after a high-level seminar organized by the IPU and United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), Comoros formally presented […]
Dozens of lawmakers, IPU and World Health Organization (WHO) officials and other stakeholders from around the world gathered in Geneva on 20 May 2026 for the Global Parliamentary Forum, held on the sidelines of the 79th World Health Assembly. The meeting focused on two urgent priorities: how to turn the WHO Pandemic Agreement into national reality, […]
Chad’s first elections in more than a decade marked the end of a three-year transitional period and paved the way for a return to parliamentary democracy. It was fitting that the elections came shortly after Haroun Kabadi – former Speaker of Chad’s National Assembly, Head of the National Transitional Council and now President of the […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) successfully concluded its 152nd Assembly, hosted by the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye in Istanbul from 15-19 April 2026. The “parliament of parliaments” drew over 1,500 delegates, including more than 720 parliamentarians from 126 countries. Women comprised 37% of lawmakers present. Some 13% of the parliamentarians attending were under 40. The high-level […]
In a historic first, Anda Filip has been elected the ninth Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the first woman to hold the post in the IPU’s 137-year history. As a result, the IPU joins the small but growing club of international organizations led by women for the first time. Anda Filip was elected […]
The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) will convene its 152nd Assembly in Istanbul, Türkiye, from 15 to 19 April 2026. Hosted by the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, the overall theme of the event is Nurturing hope, securing peace and ensuring justice for future generations. Against a backdrop of unfolding and ongoing wars, with severe humanitarian consequences, in […]
From Monday 16 March to Thursday 19 March BGIPU welcomed a visit to London by a delegation from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The delegation was led by Lesia Vasylenko MP, Chair of the UK Friendship Group in the Verkhovna Rada, who was joined by Yehor Cherniev MP, Andrii Zhupanyn MP, Larysa Bilozir MP, Iryna […]
Following a very successful delegation to the UK from the Parliament of Moldova in November 2024 and a brief fact-finding visit by Anneliese Dodds and John Whittingdale last September, this outward delegation to Moldova and then onto Romania from 1 to 5 March 2026 was much anticipated. The delegation was very balanced and harmonious. I […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the global organization of parliaments, was founded on the principles of parliamentary dialogue and diplomacy for peace and democracy. As such, we condemn the military strikes carried out by Israel and the United States of America on the Islamic Republic of Iran. We likewise condemn the retaliatory attacks launched by the […]
Opinion piece by Martin Chungong, IPU Secretary General The India AI Impact Summit, held this week in New Delhi, is the first global summit on artificial intelligence (AI) of this scale hosted in the Global South. This signals that the debate about AI – how it is developed, who benefits from it and who governs it – […]
